Dozens of women from the Marshall Islands are traveling to the U.S. every year to adopt out their babies to U.S. families despite government efforts to crack down on this unique baby pipeline. We examine the people and practices that are continuing to perpetuate the problem.

University of Hawaii researchers tracked dozens of hungry tiger
sharks to a remote atoll in the Papahanaumokuakea Marine
National Monument this summer. Civil Beat photojournalist Alana
Eagle documents the expedition in this multimedia special report.

A Civil Beat Investigation: In Hawaii’s workers’ comp system, people with long-lasting injuries are often forced to battle doctors hand-picked by insurance companies to get treatment and disability payments.

Civil Beat Staff

Cory Lum

A small homeless encampment has spread out beneath a cluster of overpasses and along nearby waterways, generally out of the public's sight, but not beyond the gaze of the state Department of Transportation.

A new elementary school in Kapolei and a new agricultural product in Waimanolo are celebrated. A hula festival returns to Moanalua Gardens and the Honolulu Ethics Commission returns to the issue of when to talk to the media.

While the nation's secretaries of labor and veterans affairs talked issues in Honolulu, surfers, bodyboarders and even some risk-taking non-boarders negotiated big waves, taking advantage of blue skies before this weekend's rainy forecast.

Despite a handful of arrests, officers and protesters treat each other well. But this week's attempt to resume construction of the Thirty Meter Telescope gets off to a rocky start with boulders strewn across the mountain road, forcing its closure.

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